Gaucher disease is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by deficient beta-glucocerebrosidase (glucosylceramidase) activity or saposin C which is an activator of beta-glucocerebrosidase in sphingolipid metabolism. The enzymatic defects lead to the accumulation of glucosylceramide (GC) in lysosomes of affected cells. Despite the fact that Gaucher Disease consists of a phenotype, with varying degrees of severity, it has been sub-divided in three subtypes according to the presence or absence of neurological involvement. The sub-types are Type 1, 2 and 3.
Category
Inherited metabolic disorder, Lysosomal disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Metabolic disorders
Inborn errors of metabolism
5C56 Lysosomal diseases
H00126 Gaucher disease
Pathway-based classification of diseases [BR:br08402]
Lipid/glycolipid metabolism
nt06014 Sphingolipid degradation
H00126 Gaucher disease
Ben Turkia H, Gonzalez DE, Barton NW, Zimran A, Kabra M, Lukina EA, Giraldo P, Kisinovsky I, Bavdekar A, Ben Dridi MF, Gupta N, Kishnani PS, Sureshkumar EK, Wang N, Crombez E, Bhirangi K, Mehta A
Title
Velaglucerase alfa enzyme replacement therapy compared with imiglucerase in patients with Gaucher disease.
